Re: Conflicts in large grammar

[Evan Lavelle]

Hans Aberg wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2007, at 10:55, Evan Lavelle wrote:
>
> > >   http://savannah.gnu.org/svn/?group=bison
> >
> > "Error: this project has turned off this tool" ?!
> >
> > I sympathise. If I ever get enough time, I'll probably be converting 
> > back from svn to cvs.
>
> What are the cons and pros of the two? Mac OS X 10.4.10 comes with CVS 
> but not the other, so that one is easier for me.

Whoa; I hate this discussion. There's a long list of pros and cons, but 
as an actual user, who has to do a real job in which svn or cvs takes up 
only 5 minutes in the day, there are (I think...) only 2 significant issues.

The good part of svn is that you can easily manipulate directories and 
files (moving and renaming). This is great, and it's hard work in cvs, 
but you don't need to do it often.

What I personally need revision control for is to restore a file when I 
mess it up. For this, you generally need to go back one revision on the 
file, and compare the old and new versions. If you're using emacs, this 
is trivial; you can easily ediff the two versions in side-by-side 
windows. It's more difficult for svn - you have to find the last version 
of the file which was actually different (and it may have been hundreds 
of versions ago), restore it, and then manually run up ediff. Ok, it's 
not too difficult, but it's bad enough. The svn modes for emacs are next 
to useless (unless they've improved over the last year). Ok, this is a 
problem with emacs rather than svn, but that makes no difference to me 
as a user.

In short, the effort of installing svn was, for me, just pointless busywork.

Evan